Sentence examples for polymer from inspiring English sources

She called her images her "cast of characters", and she deployed them on polymer printing plates and in paper chains of sheets collaged with selected cut-out figures, her "paper dolls", that littered the studio and stretched into enormous scrolls.

At the time, she was working for DuPont, the chemical company, trying to find a petroleum-based polymer fibre that would be lighter and harder-wearing than steel in radial tyres.

Smart gels contain water or some other fluid within a matrix of chain-like polymer molecules, and respond to changes in temperature, light, and various other forces and stimuli with dramatic changes in size or shape.

She was curious and, ignoring advice that the polymer would not work as a fibre, persuaded the lab scientists to let her pass it through the spinners.

Nylon was generally spun from polymer crystals at over 200C.

His group has developed a type of rechargeable cell, called a lithium-metal polymer (LMP) battery.

This is 1.2 nanometres across, a diameter that permits the passage of water more easily than a polymer membrane does, but is still small enough to hold back hydrated chloride ions.

Concrete coated with capsule-free polymer took in 3.9 grams.

The undercoat is made of a polymer that acts like the glue on a Post-it note.

What has been reported from Teflon use is a risk of fumes from overheating pans, giving people temporary flu-like symptoms and sickness – known as polymer-fume fever.

That also speeds the water molecules' passage.The upshot, according to John Stetson, the engineer in charge of Lockheed's end of the project, is that far less pressure would be needed to desalinate water than a polymer-based system requires.